NRS 220.155 Acceptance
of gifts, grants and bequests to pay for costs related to publications.

NRS 220.160 Printing
and reproduction of supplements; prices and sales.

NRS 220.165 Distribution
of NRS and supplements to Legislators; payment of costs.

NRS 220.167 Distribution
of NRS and supplements to district, justice and municipal courts; payment of
costs.

CERTIFICATION AND CITATION OF NEVADA REVISED STATUTES AS
OFFICIAL CODIFIED LAW

NRS 220.170 Certification
of NRS and supplements; citation of NRS as official codified version of
Statutes of Nevada and prima facie evidence of law; form of citations to NRS.

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GENERAL PROVISIONS

NRS 220.040General powers and duties of Legislative Counsel and Legal
Division regarding revision of statutes.The
Legislative Counsel and the Legal Division have the powers and duties
prescribed in this chapter.

1. The Legislative Counsel and the
Research Director shall work collaboratively to develop recommendations for the
elimination of obsolete or antiquated provisions contained in the Nevada
Revised Statutes.

2. The recommendations, if any, must be
presented to the Legislative Commission on or before July 1 of each
even-numbered year.

3. The Legislative Commission shall, as it
deems appropriate, request the preparation of a bill draft to facilitate the
recommendations.

(Added to NRS by 2003, 813)—(Substituted
in revision for NRS 218.2473)

NRS 220.090Secretary of State to make records, books and statutes available
to Legislative Counsel for inspection.The
Secretary of State shall make available for inspection to the Legislative
Counsel:

1. All records in the Office of the
Secretary of State which are or may be of use to the Legislative Counsel.

2. Any books or statutes in the custody of
the Office of the Secretary of State.

[9:304:1951]—(NRS A 1963, 1022; 1965, 952)

PREPARATION AND REVISION OF NEVADA REVISED STATUTES AND
RELATED PUBLICATIONS

NRS 220.100Preparation and publication of annotations and supplements to
NRS.The Legislative Counsel
shall:

NRS 220.105Preparation and publication of digest of judicial opinions
concerning Nevada law.The
Legislative Counsel may, on such terms as the Legislative Counsel deems
appropriate and with the approval of the Legislative Commission, enter into a
contract with any publisher for the preparation and publication of a digest of
judicial opinions construing or concerning the law of this state, or for
cooperation in the preparation and publication of such a digest.

5. Such annotations, historical notes,
Supreme Court and district court rules and other information as the Legislative
Counsel deems appropriate to include.

[Part 2:304:1951; A 1953, 388]—(NRS A 1963, 1022;
1969, 12)

NRS 220.120Compilation, organization, revision and publication of NRS: Form
and style; numbering and arrangement; inclusion of notes and reference
materials; changes and corrections; legal effect of renumbering; resolution of
nonsubstantive conflicts between multiple laws.

1. In preparing the annotations and
keeping Nevada Revised Statutes current, the Legislative Counsel is authorized:

(a) To adopt such system of numbering as the
Legislative Counsel deems practical.

(b) To cause the revision to be published in a
number of volumes deemed convenient.

(c) To cause the volumes to be bound in
loose-leaf binders of good, and so far as possible, permanent quality.

2. The pages of Nevada Revised Statutes
must conform in size and printing style to the pages of the Statutes of Nevada,
and roman style type must be used.

3. The Legislative Counsel shall classify
and arrange the entire body of statute laws in logical order throughout the
volumes, the arrangement to be such as will enable subjects of a kindred nature
to be placed under one general head, with necessary cross references.

4. Notes of decisions of the Supreme
Court, historical references and other material must be printed and arranged in
such manner as the Legislative Counsel finds will promote the usefulness
thereof.

5. The Legislative Counsel in keeping
Nevada Revised Statutes current shall not alter the sense, meaning or effect of
any legislative act, but may renumber sections and parts of sections thereof,
change the wording of headnotes, rearrange sections, change reference numbers
or words to agree with renumbered chapters or sections, substitute the word
“chapter” for “article” and the like, substitute figures for written words and
vice versa, change capitalization for the purpose of uniformity, correct
inaccurate references to the titles of officers, the names of departments or
other agencies of the State, local governments, or the Federal Government, and
such other name changes as are necessary to be consistent with the laws of this
state and correct manifest clerical or typographical errors.

6. The Legislative Counsel may:

(a) Create new titles, chapters and sections of
Nevada Revised Statutes, or otherwise revise the title, chapter and sectional
organization of Nevada Revised Statutes, all as may be required from time to
time, to effectuate the orderly and logical arrangement of the statutes. Any
new titles, chapters, sections and organizational revisions have the same force
and effect as the 58 titles originally enacted and designated as the Nevada
Revised Statutes pursuant to chapter 2, Statutes of Nevada 1957.

(b) Add, revise, move or remove nonsubstantive
definitions in titles, chapters and sections of Nevada Revised Statutes to
effectuate the orderly and logical arrangement of the statutes, improve
readability or reduce repetitious or lengthy words or phrases.

7. If the Legislative Counsel renumbers
any section of Nevada Revised Statutes because the section has been moved,
divided or combined with another section during the reorganization of the
statutes or for any other reason, the citation to the previously assigned
number in any legal document, publication, signage or in any other place shall
be deemed to have the same meaning and legal effect as if the citation were to
the new number, regardless of how long it has been since the new number was
assigned and regardless of any revisions made to the section after the
assignment of the new number, unless another intent is otherwise specified.

8. The Legislative Counsel shall assign
NRS numbers to such new permanent and general laws enacted at any regular or
special session.

9. The Legislative Counsel shall resolve
all nonsubstantive conflicts between multiple laws enacted at any regular or
special session as if made by a single enactment. If multiple amendments to a
single section of NRS are made during a regular or special session, such
amendments are all effective and must be compiled in a manner that is
consistent with the intent of the Legislature as determined by the Legislative
Counsel.

10. The Legislative Counsel shall
substitute the name of any agency, officer or instrumentality of the State or
of a political subdivision whose name is changed by law or to which powers,
duties and responsibilities have been transferred by law, for the name which
the agency, officer or instrumentality previously used or which was previously
vested with the same powers and charged with the same duties and
responsibilities.

NRS 220.125References in NRS to persons with physical, mental or cognitive
disabilities to be made using respectful language.

1. The Legislative Counsel shall, to the
extent practicable, ensure that persons with physical, mental or cognitive
disabilities are referred to in Nevada Revised Statutes using language that is
commonly viewed as respectful and sentence structure that refers to the person
before referring to his or her disability.

2. Words and terms that are preferred for
use in Nevada Revised Statutes include, without limitation, “persons with
disabilities,” “persons with mental illness,” “persons with intellectual
disabilities” and other words and terms that are structured in a similar
manner.

3. Words and terms that are not preferred
for use in Nevada Revised Statutes include, without limitation, “disabled,”
“handicapped,” “mentally disabled,” “mentally ill,” “mentally retarded” and
other words and terms that tend to equate the disability with the person.

PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF NEVADA REVISED STATUTES AND
RELATED PUBLICATIONS

NRS 220.130Printing and reproduction of NRS; prices and sales; retention of
master copy.

1. Upon completion of Nevada Revised
Statutes, the Legislative Counsel shall have it printed, lithoprinted or
reproduced by any other process by the State Printing Office and may create or
cause to be created reproductions of Nevada Revised Statutes, alone or in
combination with any other legal publications, on electronic discs or any other
available medium. The Legislative Commission shall determine the number of
copies which must be printed or reproduced of each page of each volume of
Nevada Revised Statutes with annotations.

2. Upon completion of the final printing
or other reproduction, the separate volumes must be bound as required in this
chapter and retained by the Legislative Counsel for safekeeping and
disposition. The Legislative Counsel shall sell each set, and may sell
individual volumes, discs, parts or pages when available, at a price to be set
by the Legislative Commission as near as possible to the cost of preparing,
printing and binding or other reproduction, and all proceeds of sales must be
deposited in the Legislative Fund.

3. A master copy of Nevada Revised
Statutes must be kept in the office of the Legislative Counsel, and the master
copy must not be removed from the office except in the custody of the
Legislative Counsel.

NRS 220.155Acceptance of gifts, grants and bequests to pay for costs
related to publications.The
Legislative Commission may accept gifts, grants and bequests of moneys from any
public or private source, which moneys shall be deposited in the Legislative
Fund and used for the purposes of NRS 220.150.

(Added to NRS by 1963, 12; A 1963, 1008; 1973, 1120)

NRS 220.160Printing and reproduction of supplements; prices and sales.

1. Upon the completion of Nevada Revised
Statutes with annotations, the Legislative Counsel shall prepare and have
printed or reproduced such replacement and supplementary pages for such laws
and annotations as may, from time to time, be necessary and may create or cause
to be created reproductions of the replacement and supplementary pages, alone
or in combination with any other legal publications, on electronic discs or any
other available medium. In any event, the Legislative Counsel shall prepare
replacement and supplementary pages made necessary by a regular or special
session as soon as possible after each such session.

2. The intent of this section is that
Nevada Revised Statutes be kept current insofar as may be possible. To that
end, the provisions of this chapter, and in particular NRS
220.120, apply to the preparation and printing or reproduction of such
replacement and supplementary pages.

3. Prices must be set by the Legislative
Commission as near as possible to the cost of preparing, printing and
reproduction. All money received for the sale of such replacement and supplementary
pages must be deposited to the credit of the Legislative Fund.

1. A complete set of Nevada Revised
Statutes with annotations to each person who becomes a Legislator upon payment
by the Legislator to the Legislative Counsel Bureau of the sum of $50; and

2. Sets of replacement or supplementary
pages, as issued, without charge, to each Legislator during the Legislator’s
term of office if the Legislator has acquired a set of Nevada Revised Statutes
pursuant to subsection 1.

NRS 220.167Distribution of NRS and supplements to district, justice and
municipal courts; payment of costs.

1. Each board of county commissioners
shall provide a complete set of Nevada Revised Statutes with annotations to
each district court or department thereof and each justice court or department
thereof regularly established in the county, and shall provide corresponding
sets of replacement or supplementary pages as issued.

2. The governing body of each city shall
similarly provide for each department of its municipal court.

3. If a justice of the peace is ex officio
municipal judge, the county and city shall share equally the cost for his or
her court.

CERTIFICATION AND CITATION OF NEVADA REVISED STATUTES AS
OFFICIAL CODIFIED LAW

NRS 220.170Certification of NRS and supplements; citation of NRS as
official codified version of Statutes of Nevada and prima facie evidence of
law; form of citations to NRS.

1. The master copy of Nevada Revised
Statutes, as printed and bound in accordance with NRS
220.130, must contain a certificate of the Director of the Statute Revision
Commission that the Director has compared each section thereof with the
original section of the enrolled bill by which Nevada Revised Statutes was
adopted and enacted, and that the sections in the published edition are
correctly copied. All other printed and bound copies of Nevada Revised Statutes
must contain a copy of the certificate.

2. Each set of replacement or
supplementary pages, prepared in accordance with NRS
220.160 and published before January 1, 1963, for inclusion in the master
copy of Nevada Revised Statutes, must be accompanied by a certificate of the
Director of the Statute Revision Commission, and each set published after
January 1, 1963, by a certificate of the Legislative Counsel, that such person
has compared each section thereof with the original section of the enrolled
bill, and that, with the exception of the changes authorized by law, the
sections set forth in the replacement or supplementary pages are correctly
copied. All other sets of replacement or supplementary pages must be
accompanied by a copy of the certificate. All such certificates must be inserted
in the bound copies of Nevada Revised Statutes in chronological order
immediately following the initial certificate of the Director.

3. Copies of Nevada Revised Statutes, as
printed, published, revised, supplemented and certified in accordance with this
chapter, constitute the official codified version of Statutes of Nevada and may
be cited as prima facie evidence of the law in all of the courts of this state.
Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, that evidence may be rebutted
by proof that the statutes cited differ from the official Statutes of Nevada.
That evidence may not be rebutted by proof that the statutes differ from the
official Statutes of Nevada in a manner authorized pursuant to NRS 220.120.

4. Nevada Revised Statutes and its
component parts may be cited as follows: